Judgment of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pramod Tyagi Vs State of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 21/03/3035. A proposal was initiated by State of National Capital Territory of Delhi, Department of Transport to start a Driving Training Institution at Mukundpur and permission was also granted. …
JODHPUR district in Rajasthan, which recently captured headlines for being the place where the cinestar Salman Khan was arrested for killing a blackbuck, is all set to become famous for wildlife conservation. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) will be developing a cheetah breeding facility at the Machiya Nature …
Over half the children in Nepal are working as child labourers. Seventy-one per cent of them work as bonded labourers in rural areas while 52 per cent work as domestic help in urban areas. This was revealed by Renu Rajbhandari, president of the Women Rehabilitation Centre (WRC). She also said …
An indefinite strike by 7,000 public sector doctors is causing immense distress to the Venezuelan people who have already been facing the brunt of declining health care services for the last decade. The most affected are the poor, who depend on subsidised medical services provided in the government-run hospitals. The …
One of the most polluted cityies of the world, the Mexico City may find an answer to the growing menace of pollution. Due to a surplus in cane output, sugar producers of Mexico are hoping that the sugar-based ethanol industry will come to the rescue of the residents of Mexico …
The Paris Metro, one of the world's oldest underground transport systems, leaps into the 21st century on Thursday with a new line sporting driverless trains, bright spacious stations and even a tropical greenhouse.
General Juan Domix Peron's idea of introducing beavers in Tierra del Fuego, the snowy archipelago on the tip of South America, half a century ago seems to have gone seriously awry. In 1946, someone in the late president's navy came up with the idea of colonising Tierra del Fuego with …
More than 23 fishermen have been feared dead and several injured as two boats capsized in the stormy seas in the Bay of Bengal off the southern coast of Bangladesh. Amid renewed fears of flooding, heavy rains continued to lash the country where nearly 300 people have already died in …
In the wake of the recent forest fire disasters the world over, Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has said that governments, UN agencies, on-governmental organisations and those directly involved in fire-fighting operations must strengthen their cooperation, in order to be better prepared and jointly …
Implementation of the much delayed Delhi Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) project has reached an advanced stage, with three tenders for construction workd on the project scheduled to be opened early next week. This is the first concrete step towards starting construction work on the project, for which surveys and …
The Narmada Sagar Project dam being constructed by the Madhya Pradesh Government across the river Narmada at Punasa in Khandwa district would submerge about 1 lakh hectares of land in the state, including more than 40,000 hectares of forest land, according to the offical figures.
The first phase of the Rs. 5,900-crore Metro rail project at Delhi will be completed by June 2005m said Mr.l E. Sreedharan, former chairman of the Konkan Railway Corporation, who is now the MD of the Delhi Metro Project.
The Mumbai Urban Transport Project II (MUTP) is likely to suffer more hitches before it flags off. The major obstacles in the path as of now are the cost overrun because of delay in getting clearance,uncertainity in getting commitment from the World Bank for its proposed assistance and lastly, getting …
Voters have rejected aproposal to ban the production and patenting of genetically modified plants and animals in a referendum on Sunday 7 June. The result safeguards the future of Switzerland's biotechnology industry.
The Overseas Economic Corporation Fund (OECF) of Japan will provide 14.760 million yen as first tranche for implementation of the Delhi Mass Rapid Transit System.
A talking refrigerator will go on sale in Japan very soon. Developed by one of the nation's technological giants, Matsushita, this "hi-tech' fridge warns its user if the food stored inside is in danger of going bad. Sensors linked to a microprocessor monitor the energy efficiency of the internal cooling …
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Friday said the Konkan Railway project should be a role model in the nation-building process and the idea could be replicated for other projects for speedy completion.
Heroin addicts may soon be treated with a polymer implant instead of taking a daily dose of the heroin substitute, methadone. Researchers at John Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, have developed a button-sized implant that releases a steady stream of hydromorphone for up to three months. Hydromorphone, like …
The Prime Minister Mr A.B. Vajpayee, will dedicate the 760-km Konkan Railway line to the nation on May 1 to coincide with the Foundation Day of Maharashtra, which has a 22 per cent stake in the project.
Employers who seek optimal efficiency and productivity from their older workers should put them on morning shifts. Why? Because recent research at John Morris University in Liverpool, UK, has shown that people aged 47 years and above are less likely to adapt to the disturbed sleep patterns and biorhythms caused …
The Internet is perhaps the next best thing after we discovered fire and invented the wheel. An astounding wealth of information on every subject under the Sun just waiting for a click of the mouse. Simply amazing. This time, we look at some of the sites on the world wide …
